Okay, so I read this article. I was interested in why Mom didn’t let me read Mortal Instruments-City of Bones. She said it was because of rape. Reading City of Bones, there was no rape, so I looked it up. There IS an incest rape scene between Clary and Sebastian/Jonathan, and I read about Cassandra Clare’s reaction to people saying things about what Clary must’ve thought or ‘learned’ from that experience. I agree with what she says. When you say that the character should learn something from being raped, you shift the blame to the survivor. If you were to think, ‘this will teach her to never walk in dark alleys drunk,’ then initially what you’re saying is that the reason that the character got raped was because they were walking in a dark alley drunk. This isn’t the case. Maybe they could’ve been walking in a lit alley, sober. They could’ve still been raped either way. Clare also states, Rape is not about sex. I also agree with this. I mean, if it was about sex, why would they want to hurt the person. Sex is supposed to be about loving someone—a way to make someone someone else’s own. Rape isn’t about this. It’s about a power hungry people that want to damage people and be in control. This has nothing to do with loving someone. Also, saying someone needs to grow and learn from that experience would mean that they didn’t already know enough already about the subject, and what is there to learn? I will repeat myself in saying the whole alley thing, and it could go either way. What is there to learn? To be not stupid enough to get raped? If anything, the assaulter should learn, not the assaulted. Learn that you can hurt people, and the damage you could cause, and the punishment you will receive. It also has been showcased that people think that characters deserve pain and humiliation after the rape. As if if you’re hurting means that you’re good and pure because you’re meant to hurt. You’re meant to hurt at your loss of purity and the pain you went through. As if if you don’t suffer, you’re thinking that you’re desirable and too good for anything else. There shouldn’t be a right way to think or deal with being raped. All I got to say. This was a really dramatic rant, huh?